SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
of French towns. The Allies on their side bombed
aerodromes, tjroop concentrations, mechanised col-
umns on the move, bridges, and roads behind the
German lines. The war in the air was thus carried
for the first time into the enemy's country,
Our Raids into Germany
Since then the incursions of the Royal Air Force
into Germany and of the Luftwaffe into Britain have
steadily increased in frequency and vigour. Those of
the British airmen have been aimed exclusively at
the impairing of Germany's military strength. As
already stated, oil refineries, synthetic oil plants and
petrol storage depots have been among the chief
targets. Not only in western Germany, but also as
far away as at Leuna in central Germany, at Polite
(near Stettin) on the Baltic, and at Regensburg on
the Danube have Germany's oil fuel installations
been raided with damaging effect. Other objectives
of importance for her war effort have also been
attacked unremittingly. The aircraft factories in
which the Focke-Wulf, Dornier, Fieseler, Junkers,
Messerschmitt and other machines are constructed
or assembled have been bombed. So have the aero-
engine works of the B.M.W. and Daimler-Benz
firms. The great Fokker factory at Amsterdam was
heavily raided as soon as it had been brought into
operation for German purposes. The rail and canal
communications of western Germany have been
repeatedly bombed. The great railway centre of
Hamm, which serves as a clearing house for the whole
of the goods traffic of western Germany, was at*
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